Profile

Margaret with her mother
and sister in Halifax

Margaret grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the '70s and '80s. She attended Dalhousie University, majoring in Philosophy with a minor in Languages. With a Bachelor's degree in hand, she lived and worked in Germany as a Zimmermadchen, before completing a Translation degree in Quebec and becoming an ESL instructor and freelance translator.

A born writer, she entertained family and friends with stories from early childhood and wrote her first novella during summer break at age 12. She continued to write, in English and French, throughout her twenties, and in 2001 she moved to Victoria to complete her first novel. Since then she has written two more books and a large selection of short stories.

Margaret has over a dozen years experience working in the communications field, working as an editor, writer and consultant. She has taken a number of creative writing classes and has attended conferences and workshops in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. Her work has been published in Canadian and American literary journals as well as a British anthology.

Writing Courses

2012-13 Fiction mentorship at Humber School of Writers (Isabel Huggan)